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Orleans: Wilbert John Spencer 23 Antonio G. James: Black 42 M March 1, 1996 Henry Silver Mike Foster: 24 John Ashley Brown Jr. White 35 M April 24, 1997 Omer Laughlin 25 Dobie Gillis Williams: Black 38 M January 8, 1999 Sabine [g] Sonja Knippers 26 Feltus Taylor Jr. Black 38 M June 6, 2000 East Baton Rouge: Donna Ponsano 27 Leslie Dale Martin ...
John Ashley Brown Jr. (c.1962/1963 [1] – April 24, 1997) was an American from New Orleans who was convicted of first-degree murder and incarcerated on death row in Louisiana State Penitentiary for 12 years. He was one of six inmates featured in the 1998 documentary entitled The Farm: Angola, USA. He was executed in 1997 for the murder of Omer ...
The male death row is at the Louisiana State Penitentiary in West Feliciana Parish. The female death row is at Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women in St. Gabriel. [6] Executions in Louisiana are currently performed at the Louisiana State Penitentiary. [7] This is specified under the law. Louisiana's method of execution is lethal ...
Davis was known in the community as "RoboCop" because of his large size and as the "Desire Terrorist" due to his aggressive policing style. [5]He had been suspended six times and received 20 complaints between 1987 and 1992, while subsequently receiving the department's Medal of Merit in 1993.
As of October 1, 2024, there were 2,180 death row inmates in the United States, including 49 women. [1] The number of death row inmates changes frequently with new convictions, appellate decisions overturning conviction or sentence alone, commutations, or deaths (through execution or otherwise). [2]
Antoinette Renee Frank (born April 30, 1971) [1] is a former officer of the New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) who, on March 4, 1995, committed a violent armed robbery at a restaurant which resulted in the killing of two members of the Vietnamese-American family who ran the establishment, and fellow NOPD officer Ronald A. Williams II.
As Freddie Eugene Owens lives the last hours of his life, USA TODAY is sharing some of the South Carolina death row inmate's handwritten letters to a woman he loved. At times furious and at others ...
Officers patrol the death row corridors nightly as a suicide prevention tactic. Nick Trenticosta, a New Orleans attorney with the ACLU who is involved with prison issues, has said that warden Burl Cain treated death row inmates in a more favorable manner than did wardens of other death row prisons in the United States. Trenticosta said, "It is ...